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● The boat：这里不用She suddenly saw…等字样，这种写法在英文里并不显得突兀。loomed：朦胧中突然出现，通常用于形体庞大的东西。boat虽是小船，但是四周雾气（haze）低垂，船穿雾而出，疑是驾云（in a cloud）而来，也会使人觉得很大的。
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● soft rose light：雾气中看出来的霞光，用这几个字恐怕是最为妥贴。mounted：升（空）。空中霞光，应该普照万物，但是周围都是平平的地和水，没有突出的东西，单单照在船上，好像霞光只有一道，专照（caught：捉住）这艘小船的。burnished：磨擦（金属，使光亮）。小船在雾气之中，为霞光所照，色彩一定很美。但是假如真说它灿烂若黄金，未免显得过火。这里dull一字用得最为恰当。
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● leisurely：船并不急驶。horse：中国有用民夫拉纤行船的，爱尔兰恐怕是用马拉纤的。马在岸上走，船在水中行。Golden Barque：典不详，想必爱尔兰民间传说中有“仙舟”这种东西，乡村女子在暮色苍茫之中（in the twilight），逢此奇景，很可能往这方面联想上去的。barque即bark，小船。乡间小船，认作仙人金槎，这就是我所谓“浪漫情调”。
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● brown head：头发的颜色。put…to one side：侧着头。
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● crane：鹤。四周本来一片静寂，小船出现，打破了这种沉寂，作者特别叫一只野鹤受惊飞起，描写就更有生气。中国旧诗中这种“画龙点睛”之法很常见，读者不妨参照。
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● lazy wings：和前面船的leisurely以及马的deliberately相呼应。wake：船身后边的水流。reaching its neck：伸长它的头颈。before it=before the crane。
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The figure that swayed by the big arm of the tiller on The Golden Barque was vague and shapeless at first, but Mary felt her eyes following the slow movements of the body. Mary thought it was very beautiful to sway every now and then by the arm of the tiller, steering a Golden Barque through the twilight.
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● figure：人的身形。朦胧中还看不仔细。swayed是不及物动词：摇摆。tiller：舵柄；想必粗而且长，故说the big arm。
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● The Golden Barque：小船的名字，我们不知道。但是在Mary想象之中，她觉得它很美，就干脆叫它金船了。
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● slow movements：一摇一摆，姿态很美。
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● every now and then：一下又一下地，常常。
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● steering：掌舵，驾驶。
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Then she realised suddenly that the boat was much nearer than she had thought. She could see the figures of the men plainly, especially the slim figure by the tiller. She could trace the rope that slackened and stretched taut as it reached from the boat to the horse. Once it splashed the water, and there was a little spout of silver. She noted the whip looped under the arm of the driver. Presently she could count every heavy step of the horse, and was struck by the great size of the shaggy fetlocks. But always her eyes went back to the figure by the tiller.
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● 她忽然发觉（realised）船已行近，各人的身形都可以看清楚（plainly），她起初还以为很远呢。这几段描写，都以船的行动为线索，由远而近，驶过她的身边，然后消失。
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● slim：细长的。那个在舵柄旁的人非但摇摆的姿态优美，身材也是细长的，值得一看再看。
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● the rope：拉纤的绳，从船上伸（reached）到马身上。马走得快，绳子就绷紧（stretched taut）；船滑得快，绳子就松（slackened）。
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● splashed：纤绳一张一弛，有时候局部落在水里，水花四溅。spout of silver：银色水花。和golden barque有相得益彰之妙。
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● driver：赶马的。他的鞭子弯成环状（looped），夹在胁下。
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● Presently：不久之后（船渐驶渐近）。was struck by：见所未见，印象很深。shaggy：蓬松松的。fetlocks：马脚后跟上的毛。马距毛如此之盛，是她以前所没有注意过的。
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● 最后一句很有力量：她的注意力是集中到那个掌舵的身上去了。
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She moved back a little way to see The Golden Barque pass. It came from a strange, far-off world, and having traversed the bog went away into another unknown world. A red-faced man was sitting drowsily on the prow. Mary smiled and nodded to him, but he made no sign. He did not see her; perhaps he was asleep. The driver who walked beside the horse had his head stooped and his eyes on the ground. He did not look up as he passed. Mary saw his lips moving, and heard him mutter to himself; perhaps he was praying. He was a shrunken, misshaped little figure and kept step with the brute in the journey over the bog. But Mary felt the gaze of the man by the tiller upon her. She raised her eyes.
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● 船行近了，她反而要退后几步，才可看得仔细。
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● 船虽到了眼前，但是它的神秘性仍未丧失。它来自奇异的远方，穿过沼泽地（这是现实），再驶向不可知的世界。
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● drowsily：睡眼惺忪地。prow：船头。
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